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  • Vegeta@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro

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    • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And it was GPL, so it wasn’t even copyright infringement.

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      • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have never used Limewire, but if they had distributed binaries that you should pay for, it is a copyright infringement, even if you could technically compile it yourself. There are applications that do this and it’s compatible with GPL license.

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And when you downloaded “Yoursong.mp3.exe” you knew you were about to have the best day ever!

    (To this day it amazes me how so many people don’t pay attention to file types and keeps them hidden.)

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I blame Windows, as it (I believe) hid file extensions of known file types by default. Was it, because it was aesthetically more pleasing? I dunno but it sure was a hazard for the unaware user.

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      • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Their entire security model depends on knowing file extensions, but they still hide them. Even if you enable it, there are some extensions that still won’t show, like .lnk (shortcut file). You can absolutely have executable code, and therefore malware in a .lnk file.

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      • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        While it’s super annoying for the tech savvy, and gives a great opportunity to ill willed tech people, I’m sure it was an idiot proofing move. The average user is a not-so-tech-savvy office person, having relatively fuck all knowledge on extensions, and back in the time pretty much all programs got picky when facing an unknown/unsupported extension. Your average Joe/Jolene opened ‘veryimportantspreadsheet.xls’, renamed it to ‘veryimportantspreadsheetnew’ (without the extension), and made it impossible for Excel to open it by double clicking. Then in the best case they triggered an IT support request; in the worst case they reported that the very important spreadsheet got lost/corrupted and data was lost.

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And most porn was that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off.

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      • superkret@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fuck you for triggering that memory.
        I can still hear the sounds he made.

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      • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I remember actually searching that one out to see. Strange what you’ll do when you’re a teenager.

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      • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Was that the Chechen rebel video because I hated that

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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Napster was so early that most folks didn’t have the bandwidth and CPU speed to deal with decent-quality video yet, so it initially only did MP3s. I think some folks forget about it because they didn’t get into the piracy scene until they could get TV shows/movies/software etc.

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      • f314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I vividly remember spending twenty minutes downloading a single song over my 56k modem 🥲

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      • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, the real problem was that Napster had central servers that could easily be taken down via litigation. Limewire was fully P2P so there was no single point of failure.

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      • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I still have a few folders of music from Napster.

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.

      Napster was feature poor though. CuteMX was much, much better and out while Napster was still running, but it closed down after Napster lost the court case. Feature set was closer to Kazaa, including filters and being able to browse a user’s shares.

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I originally started with eMule

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  • kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).

    It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:

    Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject

    I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.

    I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).

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    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Somewhere in my files I still have the recording of a hoarse male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.

      Probably fake but I want to believe.

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I actually still have songs in my playlist that I discovered the same way. A lot of the saints were incorrectly labeled so it was hard to make sure you got the right one without listening to it. Found a lot of unknown artists this way.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude what is this Tetris one. I remember this too.

      I also remember some some that was by a dj called dj triangle and it was a super high tempo song with all kinds of songs mixed in. Haven’t found it since those days.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And sometimes things you really really didn’t want.

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  • emberpunk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fake system of a down - link song was golden.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Duuuude. I just decided to look this up on chatgpt. I had no idea that was NOT system of a down. Sounds exactly like serj lol. I used to crank that shit. Be sure link. He come to town. Come to save! The princess Zelda!

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        please don’t “Look things up” on chatgpt, use an actual search engine…

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      • emberpunk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        haha that’s funny. Sorry to break the news though.

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    • 2deck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Download Worms.exe

      I just wanted to play worms

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      • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Liero was an amazing contender

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    • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Link - he come to town He come to save - the princess Zelda

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the high seas hace grown more treacherous, but you still can.

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    • ilega_dh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Today it’s harder, not more dangerous.

      But also everything is darker.

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    • modus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In what way?

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        many governments will snitch on you if they find you doing it. some countries need a vpn to hide yourself now.

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  • LordBelphegor@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lots of free viruses too.

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  • stonedtemplepilot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My PC got AIDS once from Limewire Lite, true story.

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    • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit

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  • OR3X@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Using LimeWire free to download LimeWire Pro. Classic.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free

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    • Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Learning to torrent is what greatly increased my computer literacy when I was a kid.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or dumb songs with swooshes in them lol

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time…

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.

    If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

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    • M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.

      Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.

      I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I kinda wanna look up who actually made that “Link, he come to town!” song. Because it sure as hell was not System of a Down. lol

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      • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Know anyone with invites to acid lounge? I let my account lapse for like 5 years, and cannot get back in, bo matter how many attempts at requesting.

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    • indomara@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used to have a demonoid account too! Back then I could just torrent anything without a care…

      Now I would need a VPN and a ton of reading to even begin. Sad times.

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

      This is literally how I got introduced to several bands I never would have heard otherwise. Missing one track off one album, downloading…this definitely isn’t the right track, but who is this? And now I need to download another 8 albums by that band…

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Limewire was the rotten version of Kazaa, Kazaa lite and Bearshare. Loads of viruses and mallware. By the time Limewire was there, torrents were already so much better, but usenet has always been, and still are far superior. I pay €9,50 for usenet and download anything I want. No more streaming services, just fully automated movie and series downloads with Radarr and Sonarr. It runs on my NAS, so every morning I have new episodes downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed and placed in the right series folders. I have more rights, better quality, no ads, better service, subtitles, log of what I watched with Kodi, I can stream what I want to watch from my NAS from all around the world.

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    • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fuck me i haven’t thought of bearshare in 10 years

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      • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        10? Only 10? Last time I used it was at least 20 years ago. I’m almost 38, I used it when I was 16

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  • creamlike504@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was FREE.

    But at what cost?

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    • DoubleSpace@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      EVERYTHING!

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      • KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did download a car

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  • oeLLph@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Came here to mention soulseek

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    • the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was using Soulseek in 2005 just before Boards of Canada put out The Campfire Headphase, and I must have grabbed a fake because the version I heard sounded nothing like them and I didn’t care for it. Many years later I would realize my mistake, and the real thing is my favorite album of theirs, but I still wonder what that fakeout album actually was.

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        BoC!!! 🩵🥂

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Still used today for FLACs

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    • M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      FUCK, YEAH!!!

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  • obvs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Before torrenting kicked off, this was one of the only ways you could ever get anything. And it was great!

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dc++ as well

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You never hung out on IRC warez channels getting stuff by DCC or by trading dodgy FTP servers? Young whippersnapper!

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      • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure I did. Also, I’m going to go to use net news groups to download stuff. I hated that shit. One of the best things about LimeWire was autoresume downloads that got terminated because your connection dropped.

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  • Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still can brother 🏴‍☠️

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.

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      • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Set to search only file sizes of >320 and revel in limitless FLACs.

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  • Enzy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Turbo-Charged Connection”

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    • Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hot damn! I can listen to the song I want about 2 hours from now!

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”

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    • Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was painful.

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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Soulseek is an ad-free, spyware free, just plain free file sharing network for Windows, Mac and Linux. Our rooms, search engine and search correlation system make it easy for you to find people with similar interests, and make new discoveries!

    www.slsknet.org/news/

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.

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  • thomcat@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Weird Al Yankovic - Oops I’m Pregnant Again (REAL).mp3

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quality: 5 stars but it’s a 128mb MP3

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    SongYouWanted.mp3.txt.rar.zip.lnk.exe

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  • rosco385@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).

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  • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meh mule/donkey network ftw back then!

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